Archives for: July 2008
Is Prosper churning loans at the end of each month?
July 30th, 2008Lots of "pending review" loans get approved at the end of each month & some lenders are getting suspicious.
It's being discussed at prospers.org in the lender tab
A loan worthy of your bid on Prosper
July 12th, 2008For those that read my blog know i'm not too fond of Prosper,but there's a lender moremoneymarK (also user name moremoneymarc $19,000 lent) Who's AA loan request for $4,000 is a very safe investment.
Prosper subterfuge sets new record
July 8th, 2008It's official.The 4+ late that Prosper refuses to sell now total 1,569 loans for a total of $8,932,765.All default debt sale loans combined before this only total 1,566 for a total of $7,500,815.
You would be correct if you think that Prosper is keeping these loans from refleting correctly in the default category so that new lenders won't see how bad the defaults really are.
Not to fear.There are 1104 late loans from late - 3months late waiting in the pipeline.
How can you still lend?
http://www.prosper.com/lend/performance.aspx
All statistics taken from website owned by Prosper
AA listing on Prosper that should be HR
July 4th, 2008This loan http://www.prosper.com/lend/listing.aspx?listingID=360871
is AA on Prosper Marketplace Inc.Check out his extended credit details by signing in.The people at prospers.org have documented many Scorex flaws such as these over the past year.How many Scorex flawed loans do you have that you will never know about?
Maybe this blog post or the numerous lenders who reported it will bring it to their notice because it's obvious by his many numerous previous listings that PMI would never catch it on their own.
Scorex is a cheap scoring model that PMI uses because,well,because it's cheap.
Hey it's not like they are funding the loans anyway,right?
mygallons.com is a scam
July 3rd, 2008At http://www.prospers.org we have a forum for off topic & mygallons.com became a topic.I decided to poke around a little as i had saw the guy on tv & all of the hoopla on the news.Well,it looks like the guy is a little shady to say the least.Here's some links i found.
"Here are the problems I see with mygallons.com site.
They state:
2000 members
Soft Launch in January
Problems:
Registered Domain in March
Registered company in April
Got SSL Certificate 2 weeks ago (Not possible to run credit cards without it)
Have testimonials on their site (Not possible since no site, no members and it takes 1-6 weeks to get card)
Site went live last week
Now
Voyager, the supposed back end that runs the mygallons site says they
have no business relationship with the company and the Voyager locater
has been removed from the mygallons.com website, plus they have changed
their details and have removed the Voyager details from there site,
although for some reason, there are still some Voyager logo's still on
the site but my guess is that they will be removed sometime today."
http://mashable.com/2008/07/02/mygallons-lower-gas-prices/
"The founder of MyGallons has not history of effective risk management
whatsoever. Do a thorough search on Steven Verona, and you will see
he's moved from state to state over the past decade and is a patent
troll. He's 'invented' an illuminated purse light, pool cue, and sold
various clothing items online. Now he's introduced fuel hedging??
Something does not compute. Also, he originally claimed MyGallons was
supported by the US Bank/Voyager network. But when NBC 4 in Ohio
contacted Voyager, they said that Voyager has NO business relationship
with MyGallons."
Read comments including spin from mygallons support here
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/mygallonscom-july-1--2146/